Etymograph

English

afterwardsness

From afterwards + -ness.

Formed from afterwards + -ness

Old English æfteweard ‘behind’

Middle English afterwardes

English afterwards

The story

Coined by Jean Laplanche in his 1998 work Essays on Otherness, as a translation of Sigmund Freud's German term Nachträglichkeit, on the model of the French translation après-coup.

Today it means

noun The concept that an earlier event in one's life can later acquire a meaning.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / afterwardsness